what is the best gift you ever got from pharm reps?

[Resolve]

That is my question.

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[MilkmanAl]

An illegitimate child.

 

[deleted263296]

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[Resolve]

really, when did your school ban them?

 

[FutureDoc4]

No idea why your asking this. I am about 99% certain the majority of med schools of the country do not allow gifts to medical students from pharm companies (not even free pens or pizza lunch). I know my school is very strict about this, and I believe most others are as well.

 

[username456789]

More pens than I can handle, a portable phone charger, and a free meal almost every weekday for 2 years straight.

 

[basupran]

back in the day, lovenox femur pen.
here is a pharm pen thread
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=464237

 

[Blesbok]

Lots and lots of free food. That is about it.

 

[Resolve]

futuredoc4, i wasn't just asking all the med. students. I thought that maybe some doctors will answer it, too. After all, doctors get all the goodies.

 

[Isoprop]

I vaguely recall that pharm companies self-banned giving out pens like maybe a year ago?

 

[durty]

most schools will officially have to develop a "pharm free" clause in their bylaws to get reaccredited in the next few years (and most are currently doing it unofficially if they don't have an official law as of now). this is one of the big things that AMSA is pushing for to help us med students keep our innocence.
-durty

 

[Blesbok]

most schools will officially have to develop a "pharm free" clause in their bylaws to get reaccredited in the next few years (and most are currently doing it unofficially if they don't have an official law as of now). this is one of the big things that AMSA is pushing for to help us med students keep our innocence.
-durty

And by keep our innocence you mean make us pay for food and add to our already rediculous amount of debt. The people that want to ban reps from buying me food need to have a head on collision with a bull's ass.

 

[MossPoh]

Yea, but sadly, those lunches and free gifts influence people's decisions far more than they'd like to think. If that weren't the case then I'm sure they'd be sticking around with them. Most of the student organizations give us free food anyway. I can usually get one or two free meals a week as is.


I did get some awesome stuff when I was shadowing. Aside from a date with one of the reps, I got a really really nice pen. It surprised me how nice actually. I was quite sad when I lost it. I had some lunches. The best was probably the indirect gift I received as a patient. I got 12 samples of maxalt xlt for my migraines. That stuff is expensive and that is enough to last me a year to year and a half.

 

[dilated]

this is one of the big things that AMSA is pushing for to help us med students keep our innocence.
-durty

Thank God for AMSA, here to save us from ourselves in the true spirit of liberalism.

Where's that facepalm emoticon again...

 

[AlexMorph]

Thank God for AMSA, here to save us from ourselves in the true spirit of liberalism.

Where's that facepalm emoticon again...

 

[URHere]

The best was probably the indirect gift I received as a patient. I got 12 samples of maxalt xlt for my migraines. That stuff is expensive and that is enough to last me a year to year and a half.

People forget how much good pharm companies can do for people without insurance. I've seen dozens of patients who only have medication for their blood pressure/depression/pain/etc because of the samples drug companies give out to clinicians.

Do the samples bias physicians towards prescribing those drugs? Possibly, but I think it's better than leaving the poorest patients with nothing at all.

 

[Mattabet]

The gift of knowledge about their wonderful product.

Nah; seriously, it was a pen.

 

[Keg]

Washington Manual

 

[chessknt]

If lobbying is legal in Washington and senators get thousands of dollars in gifts, why cant doctors get a lunch worth $5?

 

[engineeredout]

 

[pgg]

Got to be the self-erecting penis pen from the ... oh, can't remember if it was the Cialis or Levitra rep.


Actually I guess it'd have to be the $160 textbook Organon gave me when I started residency. And until the day some suitably attractive vecuronium chick gives me something nicer, it's going to be genuine Zemuron® rocuronium for all my patients.

(You hear that, Organon? I could use a new edition.)

 

[docmartin252]

An illegitimate child.

Ahhhh, the pharm gift that keeps on giving. Much harder to lose than a pen, especially when the child has the pharm companies logo tattooed on their chest.

 

[coralfangs]

$12k to throw a party for a group of 50 in one of the best clubs in Manhattan

 

[mjl1717]

One night in a five star New York City Hotel plus $250 plus lecture on a new Diabetic drug before it was banded.... This was BEFORE the new regulations..

 

[qmcat]

The best gifts I would say are a Littmann Classic II SE (although it has the logo of the pharm company on the name-tag) and a huge pen from Viagra where you can twist off the cap and keep pills inside the pen .

 

[WellWornLad]

A friend to talk to when I am lonely.

 

[MsKrispyKreme]

An illegitimate child.

U cheating on me? 😡